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Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME)

Tencent Music Entertainment runs China's music streaming and online karaoke apps. The filing describes it as the largest online music entertainment platform in China by monthly active users at the end of 2025. Its four major apps are QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing, with Lazy Audio as a dedicated long-form audio app alongside them. The business splits into online music services and social entertainment services. Figures are stated in renminbi.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group

Tencent Music Entertainment runs China's music streaming and online karaoke apps. The filing describes it as the largest online music entertainment platform in China by monthly active users at the end of 2025. Its four major apps are QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing, with Lazy Audio as a dedicated long-form audio app alongside them. The business splits into online music services and social entertainment services. Figures are stated in renminbi.

Where the apps came from

QQ Music began operating in 2005, after QQ, the social network operated by Tencent, launched online music services in 2003. Kugou Music launched in 2004, and Guangzhou Kugou was incorporated in China in February 2006 to run it, adding live streaming through Fanxing Live in September 2012, rebranded Kugou Live in December 2016. Beijing Kuwo was incorporated in December 2005 and launched Kuwo Live in March 2013; it is controlled through a series of contractual arrangements with Yeelion Online rather than by ownership. WeSing started offering online karaoke in September 2014. Lazy Audio came from combining the company's own Kuwo Changting app, launched April 2020, with Lazy Audio, a Chinese audio platform acquired in March 2021.

Online music

The online music services let users discover, enjoy and share music, with smart recommendations, ranking charts, playlists, official music accounts and digital releases. They also carry long-form audio including audiobooks, podcasts and talk shows, and music-oriented video including music videos, live performances and short videos. Users can buy digital albums, physical albums and other artist-related merchandise through the platform. QQ Music, Kugou Music and Kuwo Music are substantially integrated on the content side, sharing access to one extensive content library, while the four apps are positioned at different content categories and audiences.

Social entertainment

Social entertainment services let users sing, watch and socialise. Online karaoke runs mainly through WeSing, where users sing along from a library of karaoke songs and share their performances in audio or video. Music-centric live streaming runs through the Live Streaming tab on QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing, and through Kugou Live and Kuwo Live, giving performers an online stage. Membership and advertising services sit inside social entertainment too. Content from live streaming performers, and their talent agencies where relevant, is covered by revenue-sharing arrangements giving them a percentage of what the virtual gifts attributable to their performance bring in.

The music it licenses

The company licenses hits and premium content from major domestic and international labels, and those tracks are generally available across the online music apps and, where the licence allows, the social entertainment and IoT products. During 2025 it renewed contracts with Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Bin-music, extended cooperation with Emperor Entertainment Group and Rock Records to add Dolby Atmos sound, expanded Chinese rap through Dream Music Group, renewed with the South Korean labels Starship Entertainment and YG Entertainment, and extended its partnership with the Japanese label KADOKAWA Corporation, adding thousands of tracks including anime theme songs.

SVIP and the Universal stake

Label relationships also feed the premium SVIP tier: new multi-year contracts with Sony Music Entertainment brought a 360 Reality Audio privilege for SVIP members, and SVIP users were given advance access to tickets for the G-DRAGON and BLACKPINK concert tours. The company also appointed brand ambassadors for the SVIP tiers, paired with limited-edition physical and virtual gifts. Separately, in March 2020 it joined a Tencent-led consortium that acquired a 10% equity stake in Universal Music Group from Vivendi, taking a 10% interest in the consortium; the consortium exercised a call option for a further 10% of UMG, completed in January 2021, and in March 2025 distributed the UMG shares to its members in kind, leaving the company holding 2% of UMG directly.

From Tencent Music's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

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Tencent Music Entertainment Group files a 20-F with the SEC once a year, in renminbi. In the year to 31 December 2025 it reported revenue of CNY 32,902 million ($4.6 billion at the year's average rate), up 15.8% on the year before. Its profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 11,056 million, up 66.4%.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) in brief

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) reported revenue of CNY 32.9 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, up 15.8% on the year before.
Read moreProfit attributable to shareholders was CNY 11.1 billion. Revenue was CNY 28.4 billion in 2024, CNY 27.8 billion in 2023, CNY 28.3 billion in 2022 and CNY 31.2 billion in 2021. Profit attributable to shareholders in the same years was CNY 6.6 billion, CNY 4.9 billion, CNY 3.7 billion and CNY 3.0 billion. Revenue grew 2.4% a year, compounded, over the five years to 2025. At the close of 10 November 2026 the market cap of Tencent Music Entertainment Group was $14.7 billion.

The share in the US

Last close$9.32 on 10 November 2026
52-week range$7.75 (2 October 2026) to $21.55 (10 November 2025)
Over one yeardown 56.7%
Market cap$14.7 billion: 3,147,809,000 shares outstanding at 31 December 2025 (20-F), each US share standing for 2 ordinary shares

US dollars per share as it trades in the US; the market cap and the P/E are worked out here, not filed. Prices from IEX, for splits.

Ratios

From the latest annual report, the year to Dec 2025, in dollars

ROE13.8%
ROCE16.0%
Operating margin40.6%
Net margin33.6%
FCF margin30.2%
Interest cover103.60
Debt to equity0.04
Cash conversion0.93
Share count, last 12 months-0.6%
Sales CAGR, 3 years5.1%
Profit CAGR, 3 years44.3%
EPSn/a

At the close of 10 November 2026

Price$9.32
Market cap$14.7 billion
Stock P/En/a
Price to book1.22
EV / EBITDAn/a
Dividend yield1.9%
Market cap / sales2.98
52-week high$21.55
52-week low$7.75
Price, 1 year-56.7%
Price CAGR, 3 yearsn/a
Price CAGR, 5 yearsn/a
Worked from the filed figures; hover a name for the formula.
Read moreThe priced ones use the latest price, the last regular-hours trade on IEX. Debt to equity here stands on the borrowing lines of Tencent Music Entertainment Group's balance sheet, added together, finance leases inside them only where the company puts them there; operating leases are a separate line. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.
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The public record on TME

DividendsCNY 1,981 million paid in cash dividends in FY2025
Filings21 in twelve months: 20 reports on Form 6-K, most often tencent Music Entertainment Group to Report Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results on November 17, 2026 (1); tencent Music Entertainment Group Announces Closing of US$1,000 Million Notes Offering (1); tencent Music Entertainment Group Announces Pricing of US$1,000 Million Notes Offering (1); tencent Music Entertainment Group Announces Notes Offering (1); unaudited Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Information for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2025 and 2026 (1)
Planned insider salesno Form 144 notice in twelve months
Options tapeput/call 0.67 by open interest at the 10 November 2026 close; the straddle prices a 9.4% move to 20 November 2026
13F holders309 funds reported a position for the quarter to 30 June 2026; largest Schroder Investment Management Group
Congress0 House trades disclosed in six months
Short interest39.2 million shares short, 8.67 days to cover at 30 October 2026

Income statement (profit and loss), 10 fiscal years

Year toDec 2016Dec 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025
Revenue4,36110,98118,98525,43429,15331,24428,33927,75228,40132,902
Cost of sales3,1297,17111,70816,76119,85121,84019,56617,95716,37618,367
Gross profit1,2323,8107,2778,6739,3029,4048,7739,79512,02514,535
Research and development4497979371,1591,6672,3392,5802,5252,2802,317
Operating profit1031,5932,0394,6224,7103,8004,4436,0598,71013,364
Finance costsn/an/a35.064.097.012110814194.0129
Profit before tax1141,5972,0034,5404,6323,6324,3736,0458,71213,277
Income tax29.02781715634564175348251,6031,924
Profit for the year85.01,3191,8323,9774,1763,2153,8395,2207,10911,353
Profit attributable to shareholders82.01,3261,8333,9824,1553,0293,6774,9206,64411,056
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
CNY million, from each year's annual report on the SEC's EDGAR, linked in the last row, on the IFRS tags the company filed.
Read moreA line the company does not file under the standard tag is left out rather than estimated. Profit for the year includes the part that belongs to minority shareholders; profit attributable to shareholders is the part EPS is struck on. Each year links to its own page.

Revenue by product or service

Dec 2016Dec 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025Share
of the parts, latest year
Online Music Services2,1443,1495,5367,1529,34911,46712,48317,32521,74226,72681.2%
Social Entertainment Services And Others2,2177,83213,44918,28219,80419,77715,85610,4276,6596,17618.8%
Online Music ServicesSocial Entertainment Services And Others
11.0Dec 201725.4Dec 201931.2Dec 202127.8Dec 202332.9Dec 2025

CNY billion; hover a block for its figure and share

CNY million, from the latest 20-F, in the company's own words. A year is shown only where the parts add up to the revenue above.

Cash flow statement

Year toDec 2016Dec 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025
Cash from operations8732,5005,6326,2004,8855,2397,4817,33710,27510,231
Purchase of property, plant and equipment41.075.013295.010815985.0165319305
Free cash flow8322,4255,5006,1054,7775,0807,3967,1729,9569,926
Cash from investing496-483-1,190-8,102-14,206-5,999-1,446-1,863-6,818-10,227
Cash from financing1,71299.07,741-31.05,292-3,710-3,419-1,538-3,830-4,649
Depreciation and amortisation2363793695838241,0011,1601,0049781,375
Buybacksn/an/an/an/a1343,4793,1271,2491,925390
Dividends paidn/an/an/an/an/a0.00.0n/a1,5081,981
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
CNY million, from the cash flow statement as filed.
Read morePurchase of property, plant and equipment is the cash line as filed; purchases of intangible assets and acquisitions are not in it. Free cash flow is cash from operations less that purchase, arithmetic on the two filed lines. Cash from investing and from financing are the company's own section totals, below zero where cash went out. Buybacks are the cash paid for the company's own shares.

Balance sheet at year end

Year toDec 2016Dec 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025
Funded by
Equity attributable to shareholders20,63426,14137,72143,59052,24550,31748,09955,90767,86380,287
Non-controlling interestsn/a7.051.088.04867381,0281,2951,8632,763
Borrowings, as filedn/a0.00.00.05,1755,0625,5365,6365,7263,497
Lease liabilitiesn/an/a97.0n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
Other liabilitiesn/a3,8526,7369,00010,36711,13712,34612,69814,99215,975
Total equity and liabilitiesn/a30,00044,60552,67868,27367,25467,00975,53690,444102,522
Owned
Property, plant and equipment1081271681791762433234908031,201
Goodwill15,76216,26217,08817,14017,49219,12119,49319,54219,64720,521
Other intangible assets2,0071,7171,7631,6222,0202,8292,3682,0322,0492,899
Cash and cash equivalents3,0715,17417,35615,42611,1286,5919,55513,56713,1648,470
Inventoriesn/a30.035.026.018.024.014.08.023.041.0
Other assetsn/a6,6908,19518,28537,43938,44635,25639,89754,75869,390
Total assetsn/a30,00044,60552,67868,27367,25467,00975,53690,444102,522
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
CNY million, at each fiscal year end.
Read moreBoth totals are the company's own; other liabilities and other assets are each total less the rows shown. Borrowings is the company's own stated total where it files one; it is never added up from its parts here.

Ratios on the filed lines

Year toDec 2016Dec 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025
Gross margin28.3%34.7%38.3%34.1%31.9%30.1%31.0%35.3%42.3%44.2%
Operating margin2.4%14.5%10.7%18.2%16.2%12.2%15.7%21.8%30.7%40.6%
Net margin1.9%12.1%9.7%15.7%14.3%9.7%13.0%17.7%23.4%33.6%
Free cash flow margin19.1%22.1%29.0%24.0%16.4%16.3%26.1%25.8%35.1%30.2%
Return on year-end equity0.4%5.1%4.9%9.1%8.0%6.0%7.6%8.8%9.8%13.8%
Effective tax rate25.4%17.4%8.5%12.4%9.8%11.5%12.2%13.6%18.4%14.5%
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F

Arithmetic on the filed lines of the same year: margins over revenue, return on equity as profit attributable to shareholders over year-end equity, tax over profit before tax.

Questions

What was Tencent Music Entertainment Group's revenue in 2025?

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) reported revenue of CNY 32.9 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, up 15.8% on the year before.

How much did Tencent Music Entertainment Group earn in 2025?

Profit attributable to shareholders was CNY 11.1 billion for the year to 31 December 2025.

What is Tencent Music Entertainment Group's market cap?

The market cap of Tencent Music Entertainment Group was $14.7 billion at the close of 10 November 2026.

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4 companies share its SEC industry code (Radio Broadcasting Stations); the rest are the names nearest in size in its wider industry, Communication, one of the Fama-French 48 industries, a published grouping of SEC industry codes.
Read moreBy market capitalisation; a click on a heading sorts by it, largest first, and a second click turns it round. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close; a name marked * is a foreign company that files once a year, on its latest fiscal year.

Annual reports on EDGAR

FormYear toFiled
20-F31 December 202517 April 2026EDGAR
20-F31 December 202423 April 2025EDGAR
20-F31 December 202318 April 2024EDGAR
20-F31 December 202225 April 2023EDGAR
20-F31 December 202126 April 2022EDGAR
20-F31 December 20209 April 2021EDGAR
20-F31 December 201925 March 2020EDGAR
20-F31 December 201819 April 2019EDGAR